Post apocalypse

At Doomsday-plus-two weeks, Netropolitan has spotted winners and losers beginning to emerge from the messy millennium bug saga. Surprisingly, while many are returning the generators they bought on 30-day approval, the survivalists see themselves as victorsof sorts. With devastating logic, one survivalist says that everybody should always keep a year of supplies on hand. He claims that the fear of the bug simply motivated him to stockpile what any sensible person should have squirrelled away anyway.

While some doomsters warn that it's still too early to sell-off or donate Y2K stockpiles to charity, the hunger relief organisation Second Harvest hopes horders will do the latter. You can find out about the "Y Go 2 Waste" programme at www.secondharvest.org/aboutash/y2k.html.

Publishers were winners: books on the dreaded date flip were hot sellers. One of the earliest to get in on the action was Ed Yourdon, co-author of the bestseller Time Bomb 2000! ...

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